""The Restless Sea" immediately surfaces at the top of the list of journalistic treatments of oceanography. . . .The book opened my eyes to numerous wonders".--Richard Strickland, "American Scientist" 8 pages of color and 20 b&w illustrations
Revised edition of: The restless sea. 1st ed. c1999
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index
1. Space and the ocean -- 2. Sounding the depths -- 3. The rift in the Atlantic -- 4. A map of the world -- 5. The seafloor at birth -- 6. Kingdom of the Holothurians -- 7. Islands in the deep -- 8. Life on a volcano -- 9. Fantastic, glistening jellies -- 10. Animal lights -- 11. Greening the ocean -- 12. Twilight of the cod -- 13. Where the water goes -- 14. The climate switch -- 15. Time and the ocean
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 2001
